{"id":27,"date":"2012-08-02T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/02\/thursday-2nd-august-2012\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:38:20","slug":"thursday-2nd-august-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/2012\/08\/02\/thursday-2nd-august-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 2nd August 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Pasadena yesterday evening, the first thing today is go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and &nbsp;get my security pass. &nbsp;This has been a detailed process which started at the beginning of the year. &nbsp;Modern space missions are very conscious of security issues \u2013 in the case of MSL both of access to &nbsp;the jpl laboratory and the potential loss of sensitive technologies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon we will start the mapping meetings to discuss the work our subteam has been doing on the final landing ellipse. &nbsp; We will have to agree on what geological units we are going to colour in using our GIS &nbsp;software. &nbsp;This is a great way of discussing the origins of Gale Crater. &nbsp;For instance, we know that there must have been great heating related to Gale Crater &nbsp;formation (because &nbsp;of all the energy released during the impact 3800 million years ago) &nbsp;and quite likely a crater lake. &nbsp;Is that reflected in the clay and sulphate at the base of the sedimentary mountain (Mt. Sharp) or did they form in a completely different way? &nbsp;This sort of context will form the basis of understanding the nature of the water activity at Gale. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More immediately we are having a competition to see who can guess the final landing spot most accurately with a pin on a wall map.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived in Pasadena yesterday evening, the first thing today is go to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and &nbsp;get my security pass. &nbsp;This has been a detailed process which started at the beginning of the year. &nbsp;Modern space missions are very conscious of security issues \u2013 in the case of MSL both of access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/mars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}